I don't mean to sound like a stuck mp3 here but have you ruled out the samba shares issue? I had what sounds like exactly the same issue and it was that the statusradar marks the HDD as offline when an MD boots up if it can't connect to the samba share. When I fixed that all was resolved. I see that Mario had a NT_STATUS_LOGON failure message which is exactly what I had.

all right jamo...I checked out your thread and dug around on my system.What I found out so far is this: my two MDs have the same credentials for sambahelper, but they are different from what dcerouter has. So I copied the credentials file over to my mds first.Next, I tried

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pdbedit -a -u sambahelper

and got this

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build_sam_account: smbpasswd database is corrupt! username sambahelper with uid 10002 is not in unix passwd database! Failed to add entry for user sambahelper

I've been pondering right now whether or not scrap this installation and try the latest snapshot...since it seems I might more or less be the only one with this weird issue.

I am now experiencing the same issue with the offline flags of my core's drives. I can confirm as you have that it is related to booting a Media Director. You also mentioned a problem with MythTV on the media directors that I am experiencing as well.

I noticed the following: 1) Missing media descriptions in the Videos lists (didn't look elsewhere). The entries were there, just not the file names... 2) MythTV bombs out about one a day on me as well... the failed once too often error...

Is that the same as both of you are experiencing?

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See my User page on the LinuxMCE Wiki for a description of my system configuration (click the little globe under my profile pic).

Assuming now that you have done nothing on the system except copy your dcerouter's Sambacredentials file to the MDs, it seems to me there is some bigger problem with your sambahelper account and I'm afraid I don't know how to fix that if it is the case. As alluded to so delicately by Thom... the sambahelper account is created automagically and should not be messed with.

I asked a friend to check his working 10.04 installation and he confirmed the following:

diff /usr/pluto/var/sambaCredentials.secret /usr/pluto/diskless/XX/usr/pluto/var/sambaCredentials.secret3c3< password=XYZLAJKSD---> password=SDLFJKFLJF(Obviously I changed the MD number to XX and the hashed password values)

So I'm guessing that the dcerouter Sambacredentials.secret file isn't an issue for him because the mediadirector there is not trying to mount a remote share and that the credentials on the MD are correct (ie the password there, when hashed, matches the smbpasswd db).

So, I may be wrong on any of my assumptions there but, right or wrong unfortunately in your case I think the issue is the lack of the sambahelper user acc. Not sure how that happened but maybe one of the gurus can give some guidance there? Otherwise shoot down my assumptions!

davegravy... might be interesting to get the results from your setup with the commands above?